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Edward Culliton C.C., S.O.M., Q.C., BA’26, LLB’28, DCL’62 (d. 1991)

A young lawyer in 1935, Dr. Culliton began his public career in the Legislature, and in 1938 entered the Cabinet as Provincial Secretary. He resigned this portfolio to go into active service with the Canadian Army. With the war s end, he returned home and to the Legislature of Saskatchewan in 1948. In 1951, he was appointed to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to become the first of a now long list of Saskatchewan graduates in important appellate posts.